• blargerer@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    I don’t know if you are just trolling, but optical illusions are very real. Our brains are surprisingly easy to trick.

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      6 months ago

      Our brains are surprisingly easy to trick.

      For sure! But in this case the brain is being tricked because we benefit socially from going along with what higher status individuals say is true. This is the social illusion of marketing, not a perspective trick or an exploit in how the eye and brain process light.